pothole

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Recent Examples of pothole Under Mahan’s tenure, the city’s vehicles have been outfitted with pothole-detecting cameras and its employees use AI to win multimillion-dollar grants. Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 5 Sep. 2025 In the video, a school bus gets stuck in a pothole and JJ and his friends transform into superheroes after eating some delicious fruity muffins. Annabelle Canela, Parents, 8 Aug. 2025 And it’s projected to increase further — before a single pothole is filled or police officer is hired. John J Roach Iii, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2025 This combination of strength and energy generation could be used in several types of wearables and Internet of Things applications, including infrastructure systems to reinforce bridges and highways that sense when a crack, pothole, or other damage appears, Yu says. IEEE Spectrum, 1 Nov. 2023 See All Example Sentences for pothole
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Noun
  • Climate crisis supercharging typhoons The western Pacific is the most active tropical basin on Earth but global ocean temperatures have been at record levels for each of the last eight years.
    Helen Regan, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Officials say negotiations and dealmaking can’t save the basin, or Arizona, from that reality.
    Austin Corona, AZCentral.com, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The sauna business will launch at Hart Park months after historic August flooding damaged and closed much of the 52-acre park, which is located on a floodplain.
    Bridget Fogarty, jsonline.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • During high-water months, water spills over and settles across the floodplain, leaving behind up to 12 inches of fresh soil annually.
    Isa Cardona, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • When camping in an open environment, select a campsite in a valley, ravine, or low region.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The Rock Creek Loop traverses approximately seven miles of ravines, creeks, subtropical forest, and small footbridges.
    Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 9 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Still, Patino described a canyon between the preoccupations and paths of people like Bezos and Griffin and the people in attendance like himself.
    Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 8 Nov. 2025
  • The sheriff’s office's search and rescue team released images showing first responders lowering a basket into the canyon for the recovery of the victim.
    Greg Norman, FOXNews.com, 8 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The California company specializes in practical minimalist gear, from kettles—the aspirational kettle of choice in most sleek coffee shops and beautiful boutique hotels—to coffee grinders and espresso machines.
    Kate Kassin, Bon Appetit Magazine, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Honestly, none of these women are immune to abusing filters and lighting, so a bit of this is just the pot calling the kettle black, which is what makes Angel’s intense reaction even harder to watch.
    Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Interest in marching in the parade was so intense that organizers implemented rigorous selection criteria like the quality of the horses’ grooming, saddles, tack, and the riders’ appearance.
    Patrick Salland, Kansas City Star, 7 Nov. 2025
  • But by the early 19th century, some mathematicians had started exploring other kinds of geometric spaces — ones that aren’t flat but rather curved like a sphere or saddle.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 3 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Ice plains can prompt fast retreat because as the glacier thins, the ice starts to rise up and water pushes underneath into its crevasses, exerting pressure and causing large slabs to break off — in a process called calving.
    Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Fellow Saturnian moon Enceladus and Jupiter's moon Europa — both thought to host oceans — are covered with a network of cracks and crevasses in their surface, signs that their volumes changed as ice melted into water.
    Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The South is filled with natural wonders, from dramatic gorges and massive cave systems to beautiful wetlands and pristine beaches.
    Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Further down the gorge of TikTok depravity, there are things like TCC, or the True Crime Community, an online subculture that’s been tied to actual school shootings.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 24 Oct. 2025

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